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5.09.2006

Title: The Smartest Guys In The Room
About: An inside look at Enron before the fall
Learn a bunch why the company collapsed? Kinda. But the movie makers understand you can't spend more than 10 minutes on the accounting tricks without boring your audience
Best parts: Footage from the huge Enron company meetings and the Congressional hearings.
What I had forgotten: How the accounting firm Arthur Andersen disintegrated in the scandal.
What I had forgotten #2: All of the Enron commercials that ended with "Ask Why."
Rent it?: I'd pass. The only way you could appreciate what happens (and I don't) would be to spend a month with someone explaining it to you.
Moral: Greed is not good.